The Mishna as Illustrating the Gospels

by William Henry Bennett

Excerpt

IN the following essay an attempt has been made to arrange and in a slight measure to interpret some of the facts as to the Mishna and the Gospels in relation to one another. The lessons to be drawn from the errors of the Pharisees are in general so much better known than the facts about these errors, that it has not been felt necessary to insist much upon these lessons and I have tried, probably with only very moderate success, to deal with the Mishna in some spirit of sympathy. For only thus is it possible to deal fairly with any teachers and the record of their teaching.